An Act for Extending and Improving the Trade to Africa

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A booklet containing the text of an act of Parliament reorganizing the Royal African Company as "The Company of Merchants Trading to Africa." The preamble of the act opens trade to Africa to all British subjects and specifically cites the needs of colonial plantations for more enslaved persons available for purchase "at reasonable rates." Black print on yellowing pages. 22 pages.

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